Cannon High School - Cannon Report Yearbook (Kannapolis, NC)

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PROPHECY It was tonight the 1st of June, 1 954, while sitting in Grand Central Station waiting for my train, that the queerest thing happened to me. I was reading a magazine called The Traveler, a travelers’ guide, when I happened to notice that Conley Graham, one of my classmates, class of ' 44, was editor and publisher. Seeing the name of my classmate took my thoughts back to my last year in Cannon High. Then I realized that tonight, ten years ago to the exact day, my class had graduated, each member now pursuing his chosen profession. Suddenly, an elderly man, sitting beside me, tapped my shoulder and began telling me all about what my classmates were doing. I had never seen the man before nor did I understand how he knew all of this, but here ' s what he told me. Zella Foster Lunsford, Jan ice Lylerly Greene, Hilda Peninger Goodman, and Rebecca Towell McCombs, who were married before we graduated, have set up housekeeping since their husbands have come home from military service. To the field of medicine the class of ' 44 gave some very outstanding men and women. Dr. Freeman Slaughter and Dr. James Jung are widely known practicing physicians, while Dr. Bar- bara Bogan is considered one of the greatest brain surgeons in the world. Those who received training as Cadet Nurses and are now capably serving in various hospitals are Virginia Beck, Frankie Chandler. Christine Foil, Edith Honeycutt, and Jennie Bell. As a life saver for such math teachers as Margaret Brooks, Zeb Cashion. and Ruth Avant, the J. O. Dayvault, Jr., Slide Rule Manufacturers have developed very easy operating and very accurate slide rules for all math students. Lawrence Ray Berry, noted lecturer and world traveler, has been touring the country with his manager, Harry Davis. Newmoon Jung is now quite a well-known photographer who takes pictures of models such as Hazel Roberts, Virginia Blackwelder, and Betty Sue Crenshaw. Secretaries who graduated from Cannon High and who are now employed in some of the largest concerns in America are Betty Jane Sossoman, Betty Sue Shinn, and Imogene Shepherd. Some of the new coiffures the women are wearing are creations which Thelma Walls, Alice Reece, or Estelle Poole have originated. Rubie Mae Oliver now operates a dress shop of her own. Eva Mae Pethel and Betty Jean Mullis design the dresses, while Clarice Morris and Suella Myers make and fit them. Even though both are married, Anna Harmon and Betty Hartis are columnists for newspapers. Mary Evelyn Childers, Cora Lee Chambers, and Eudene Hoke are home economic experts, testing the products of Allen Beam’s Cereal Company. Leroy Dwiggins now has a Super-Dooper-Super Store, selling groceries with the help of Harry Freeze, Harold Haithcock, and Johnny Linker. Aircraft manufacturing has been put on a large scale by makers such as Lawson Biles, Earl Critz, and James Yates. Dorothy Kluttz is editing a revised system of shorthand. Recently promoted to the position of head telephone operator in New York City is Maggie Lee Perkins. Employed there also are two of her classmates. Helen Powell, and Verna Mae Pethel. Betty Miller and Carol Fritts are doing work in religious education. Don Currie and Charles Holbrooks have Boy Scout Troops. Susie Whittington and Beatrice Parker have opened an orphanage. Anita Morris and Catherine Oliver assist them in keeping the children out of mischief. L. V. Lue McRorie, Ramelle Callicutt, and Helen Cartner coach basketball and softball at various schools. Elva Hipps and Eulaila Conner are welders at the new Leonard Alexander Auto Corporation. Operating various theaters throughout the United States with Robert Foi, James Gurley, and Ray Dwiggins. is Frank Goodnight. Girls selling tickets at some of these theaters are Annie Lou Ballard. Katherine Brown, and Louise Barrett. Successful lawyers who graduated in the class of ' 44 are Leonard Bassinger, Max Cooke, and Ned Lowder. Dorothy Gibson is superintendent of a school for airline hostesses. Now on active duty as hostesses are Helen Cline. Doris Cobb, and Betty Compton. Max Christy and Wallace Bennett have quite a spacious ranch out west and raise some of the cattle of the world. Even though the war is over, Bobby Phillips, Billy Avant. and Tom Teal have remained in the Army. All have commissions and are training men. Sam Shaver, Elmer Poole, and Neil Robinson have modern farms equipped with all the modern implements in use. In the great field of social work are Rosalind Bodie, Louise Bost, and Geraldine Braswell who have exerted a great influence for better living conditions. Pets are in such demand today that Jocelyn Godfrey, Claudine Griffin, and Marie Helms have opened Ye Olde Pet Shoppe.” Mary Frances Goodman, Janice Irby, and Myrtle Ketner are women dentists who have excelled in this work. Alfred Hardin, Earl Funderburke, Earl Cook, and J. C. Daugbtery are carpenters and con- tractors. The Hot Spot, Chicago ' s favorite night club, is owned by L. D. Whitley and Robert Powell and operated by Clara Mae Carter. Jeanette Cauble is head waitress, and entertainment is furnished by the dancing team, Betty Farabee and Kenny Overcash. Felix McConnell and James Overcash are transcontinental bus drivers. Albert Parham, Everett Simpson, and Paul Robinson are policemen in Kannapolis. The Collier sisters, Margaret and Sarah, are seamstresses who have such a large business that

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12th GRADE SENIORS Betty Jane Hartis Robert Joseph Powell Session House 5; President Tri-Hi-Y Club 5: Phalanx Club 5; Session House 5; Cannon Re- Twelfth Grade Play 5; Cannon Report Staff 5; port Staff 5; Baseball 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5. Monitor 5; Student Government Dance Committee 5. Sarah Virginia Horne Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Monitor 5; Marshal Twelfth Grade Play 5. Bennie Sides Vice-President Home Room 2, President 4; Pres- ident Model Airplane Club 1, 2; Dance Club 4; Hi-Y Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Chaplain 1, 3, Vice-President 2; Government Play “Mumbo Jumbo”; “Y” Member- ship Campaign 3, 4; Leader Boys’ Gra-Y Clubs 4; Cannon Report Staff 4. Gerald R. Lloyd Varsity Basketball 5; Twelfth Grade Play 5; Cannon Report Staff 5; Intramural Sports Com- mittee 5; Monogram Club 5; Beta Phalanx Club 5; Art Hi-Lights Staff, Humor Editor 5. Leonard Mabry Twelfth Grade Play 5; Varsity Basketball 5: Twelfth Grade Social Committee 5; Glee Club 5; Boys’ Chorus 5. Harold Kenneth Overcash Council 5; Vice-President Band 5; Monitor 5; Hi-Y Club 5; Beta Phalanx Club 5; Vice-President Twelfth Grade 5; Production Manager Twelfth Grade Play; Business Manager Chairman Lost and Found 5. Mary Lillian Sides “Messiah” 5; Girls’ Glee Club 5; Mixed 7 Chorus 5; Chaplain Tri-Hi-Y Club 5; Marsn P Twelfth Grade Play 5; Art Hi-Lights Staff S.J Honor Society Band 5, Librar Chairman 5; Mj Twelfth Grad Grade Play 1 and Scroll 5 ; lub 5; Program Social Committee Inn,” Twelfth SLOOP Grade Play, “Tiptoe Page T wenty-seven

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PROPHECY Margaret Goldston and Betty Jean Goodwin are employed full time by them. Serving as one of his most valuable assistants is James Starnes. Mary Dellinger and Marion Suggs have recently caused quite a sensation in the movies. For some of the greatest engineering feats of this post-war world, we have to thank Ed Shinn, Jesse Thomas, and Marvin Sides. Washington ' s two greatest politicians, Senator Jimmy Widenhouse and Senator Flarry Wright, have been very hotly debating our international problems. Found in the field of professional sports are Floyd Wilson, Harold Whitaker, and Fred Helms, all of whom got their start playing on K. H. S. teams. Delmar Wiles now has an illustrated magazine of his own. Harold Bonds and Mary Catherine Nash are furnishing the literary part for this publication. As relations between South America and the United State have improved greatly since the war, there has been a need for Spanish interpreters. Employed for this are Genevieve Parks, Marcell Milloway, and Gilda Corbin. Librarians wh o are now holding very high positions in this field are Dorothy Deal, Aileen Black, Margie Lee Dancy, and Mittie Lou Utley. Cannon High has employed several of its former students as music instructors. Betty Turner and Mildred Payne teach orchestra and band, respectively, while Dot Cooke and Billy Cline are taking care of the vocal instruction. Kate Smith has now retired and taking her place is Martha Hartness, often called Kate Smith. II. Furnishing music for Martha ' s radio program is Walter Bost and his orchestra. Albert Artz is first trombone player, vocalists for the group are Ilean Hendricks. Barbara Blackburn, and Doris Lowder. Julia Ann Nimer has made quite a name for herself as a comedienne. Jimmie Martin and E. H. Poole are the second Laurel and Hardy team. The Champion Drug Company is owned and operated by Henry Champion. His five soda jerkers are Paul Coan. Janivie Staley, A. J. Freeze, Edgar Haithcock. and Estelle Gaddy. This drug store is famous for its ultra-modern furnishings. Evelyn Oates ' s exclusive shoe shop handles all the new styles of shoes. Barbara McDonald and Ethel Sloop design new styles. Gilda Wagner helps fit shoes. Bowling is one of the favorite pastimes of all Americans. Louise Shuping has a chain of modern bowling centers. Ariel Woodward operates the largest one in Atlanta. Jimmy Wellman and W. J. Whitaker are conducting an expedition through the jungles of Brazil. Colleen Barnette, Frances Williams, and Colleen Wilhelm are in the party studying archaeology. In charge of the interior decorating of the government houses built in the East are Catherine Sloop. Vera Weaver, and Juanita Roscoe. R. J. Hilton is now pastor of the largest church in Richmond, Virginia. All through the piedmont section of North Carolina, Phil Howell, Earl Armstrong, and Leroy Arrington manage and own a chain of textile mills. Gilmer Boggs, Ph D., M.A., and A.B., is president of University of North Carolina. Fish For Frogs For Fun, is a new game everybody ' s playing. Willard Carter, Frank Crain- shaw, and Clinton Dancy furnish frogs. Gerald Lloyd and Gratton Mann have made numerous reforms in the state, and are now wardens at the state penitentiary. Billy Williams. L. C. Scarborough, Conrad Upright, and O. C. Osborne make electrical signs for such businesses as Mary Catherine Austin ' s and Peggy Adcock s skating rinks. Wrenn Harrington is National President of the P.-T. A., while Marjorie Coble, Mary Eliza- beth Cartner, and Mary Ella Crayton are state presidents. Health clubs are quite popular. Helen Crook and Helen Hyman are proprietors of clubs in California. Emma Jean Dixon, Frances Ferguson, and Norma Fowler pilot their own private planes. Virginia Harris is a pilot on a Pan-American airplane. Virginia Horne, noted authority on etiquette since the war, has been writing a new book on social do’s and don’t ' s . Her agents. Lorner Ree Fowler, Matilda Griffin, and Irene Ketner, are busy taking orders for the book even before it comes off the press. In a little dark shop in New York, Norma Fowler, Juanita Sifford, and Louise Morgan sell all sorts of rare and unusual perfumes. Glistening Toothpaste Company has employed Betty Jo Powers, Laval Lambert, and Maryland Safrit to pose for pictures used in public advertisements showing the world the smile that glistens. Baked goodies of all kinds are put out on a large scale by Betty King’s Bakery. Some of her classmates, Gladie Liles, making cakes, Ruth Morrow, making cookies, and Marie Munday, making light bread, are helping Betty in their various capacities. Pauline Patterson. Phyllis Snipes, and Imogene Shepherd have been furthering their educations abroad. By diligent and persistent effort years ago. Ileana Potts, Levay Sides, and Ruby Weaver have already made enough money to retire for life. Laura McWhorter, Edith Barnhardt, and Lillian Sides are roving fortune-tellers. People come half way across the continent to have their palms read by them. And so even the strange old man said that I. K. Lee Scott, am a house-wife. Immediately the man left me. I tried to follow him to ask how he knew all this — but alas, he was lost in the crowd, and I never saw him again. I just told you what happened because it seemed so strange that one man could tell me what my classmates, members of the class of ' 44. are doing. K. Lee Steele Scott, Prophetess